Oregon daily emerald., January 24, 1978, Page 4, Image 4

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Some changes due
Some of the ASUO program directors are unhappy
about the EMU method of scheduling rooms for speakers
and events. The directors have circulated a petition asking
for a more dependable system for scheduling meetings
and the like And we don’t blame them.
When someone wants to schedule a room n the EMU
they re never sure about which room they'd get until the day
of the meeting. The result is that the people who want to
hold a meeting don't know where it is to be held until the
day of the meeting
In addition, the present scheduling method doesn’t
give the students enough advance notice of the location of
the meeting to let them plan their day around a meeting if
they want to attend it. In some cases, meetings may be
canceled because rooms aren’t available. Also, if exact
rooms could be noted in advertisements or meeting
notices, students may be more likely to remember the
meeting and more likely to attend it. These are all good
reasons for the EMU management to take a hard look at
possible alternatives.
More rhetoric
The election of 1978 is shaping up to be one of per
sonality versus personality. And as of Fnday. the Fourth
Distnct Congressional race took on the air of attack as
Republican Jerry Lausmann launched a tew biting missiles
at incumbent Democrat Jim Weaver
Fnday, Lausmann began a speech before the Round
Table Republican Forum by mimicking Weaver s oration
style After three minutes of the affair. Lausmann said this:
“I hope you people aren’t buying this garbage, because if
you are, you are buying the typical rhetonc of a typical Jim
Weaver speech ”
Calling Weaver s campaign style ‘Weaverbabble,’'
Lausmann then crrtictsed Weaver for contradicting himself
in his campaign of 1976. when Lausmann was defeated by
Weaver
Lausmann then said he favors less regulation of busi
ness. more free enterprise and said Weaver s plans tor the
expansion of the Kalmiopsts Wilderness area is too confin
ing on the timber industry ‘We better look at every acre of
land with a real eye toward multiple use. Lausmann said.
Another issue Lausmann addressed was the Panama
Canai. winch he said ' we bought; we did not steal it.
Lausmann said that “once we've signed the treaties, we
may find ourseives in a position of having to invade to
defend it."
Even with the fact that we disagree with Lausmann s
stands at virtualiy every turn, we find his attacks on Jim
Weaver, no matter how typical a politican he may be. to be
stooping to a new low in politics
in 1976. Lausmann lost to Weaver when he address
ee the issues He ran a mellow campaign, criticized
Weave" occasionally and generally stuck to the issues
~n s year ne seems to be taking on the airs of the typical
politician ne says ne detests It takes something more than
a typical politician to criticize an opponent without calling
his rhetonc. which is synonymous with his stands, gar
bage.
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Letters
No humanity
The South African government
once again has defied all concerns
of humanity and justice in their ra
cist apartheid measures An arti
cle in the Jan 20th Oregonian tells
of the forced removal of 20.000
black persons from the desolate
Cape Flats in the area northwest
of Cape 7v*wn These people are
primarily the wives, children and
parents of the black workforce of
Cape Town who were forced to
leave the cities over the last few
years and settled there in a last,
oesperate effort to st'jy near their
home and breadwinner
The government of South Africa
will neither recognize the black s
right to have a normal family life,
or to live in the homes they have
occupied for generations. The
refugees pitiful shacks were bull
dozed and the authorities offered
to transport these people to some
other barren wasteland to earn
their poor wage and send these
pennies to the families they miss
so dearly
If these facts were not so clearly
true, they would seem to be some
grade B melodrama, hardly be
lievable in their squalor
And the South Afncan govern
ment will no doubt shout "murder
when the people rise up to ciaim
the dignity due the^ as human
beirigs. But we will not forget how
this uprising came to be Just as
we remember the Nazi gas
chambers we will remember Vors
ters' removal and separation of
the black family and how Ford,
Mobil, Coca-Cola, IBM and
other big corporations paid his bill.
Jean Vignes
1233 Mill St.
Springfield
Biorhythm debate
Last semester. Terrence Hines
and myself engaged in a senes of
opinion columns arguing the pros
and cons of the Biorhythm
theory. The last column I submit
ted (November 23rd) challenged
Mr. Hines to publicly debate and
justify his position — one of a
fierce almost irrational scepticism.
As a result. Mr Hines called upon
KUGN radio to act as a moderator
on a talk show scheduled to take
place in mid-December
As it turned out. pre-Christmas
commitments prevented Hines
from keeping the date agreed
upon and the show was post
poned I was expecting him to fol
low through and ’•eschedule the
Oeoate for sometime this month,
but since he has not done so, I find
it appropriate to issue this gentle
reminder to him:
Mr Hines come out from be
hind your pen and let us debate
this topic in public and let us do rt in
an adult fashion please You may
contact me by telephone at
687-0928
Peter Holden
2750 Capitol Drive, Eugene
Echo of the past
In reading Jock Hatfield s col
umn Friday, concerning the
course How to be born again
336,1 picked up the common feel
ing of most people, including
Chnstans. that the Chnstian life is
so full of requirements that it is
hard to get a good grade m it.
With this analysis of the Christian
situation, I basically agree with
Jock I have to say that being bom
again is simple, but I do know that
after that experience I came under
a lot of requirements These lead
to a lot of struggling and failure
I eventually realized that Christ
doesn’t care to artificially regulate
me outwardly, but rather to consti
tute me inwardly by becoming my
life contest Now the old require
ments of being a good Chnstian
that religion imbedded in me are
becoming just an echo of the past
Now I enjoy experiencing this One
who has joined Himself to me:
who is life Himself
Howard De Young
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